It was rainy today, which is apparently how it has been for a while here in North Carolina. I miss some things about Costa Rica. I miss the breakfasts of coconut, pineapple, banana, egg, bread and juice. I don’t miss not being able to flush the toilet paper and I don’t miss the mattress I slept on. I’ve been told by several people that Scott missed me at work last week. My voicemail message said to call him, and the main toll free number for work was forwarded to his phone. He said he ended up doing the thing I usually do during the day and the things he usually does at night. Josh said that going on vacation for …

I got a call from Anna Frazelle today. She wanted to know if I’d be home around 2:00 because she had something to bring by, which ended up being an early birthday cake for me! She said she didn’t think Amanda and I would have time to eat it before I left for Costa Rica if she brought it on Wednesday. Anna’s chocolate chocolate cake is literally the best chocolate cake there is in the world, and it was still warm when it got to the house, so of course I had to get a scoop of ice cream and eat a piece right after she left. Backing up, I got up early today and went to Barry Frazelle’s office …

Someone, given the targets I’d have to assume it was a Tar Heel fan, had to have put a basketball voodoo hex on Duke and Wake Forest tonight. That’s the only reason I can think of that Wake got murdered by Miami to the tune of 25 points tonight, right before Duke got massacred by 27 by Clemson. All I’ll say is that as I was watching Duke get their asses handed to them by the Tigers, I kept waiting to see a Duke run, but it never happened. Gerald Henderson scored 16 and Lance Thomas came to play, but none of the rest of the team did. Coach K was really, really not happy after the game. It’s been …

January 28, 2009 DOTSEY BABY NEWS AND VIDEOS ULTRASOUND VIDEO We are now estimatedly a little over halfway through the pregnancy, having just passed 21 weeks this past Sunday. Last week we had our final ultrasound (barring any complications) and I took the opportunity to film the occasion. If you’re on Facebook you’ve probably already seen this, but if you’re not (or you’d just like to watch it again), click the play button below to watch the video. Being a recording of a monitor, it’s not the best quality, but everyone who’s seen it so far seems to have enjoyed watching it. The background music, in case you’re wondering, is Stall Out by Mutemath followed by Life in Technicolor by Coldplay. Pretty nifty …

Last night we were told we’d be getting some snow, here in Wilmington, NC. I woke up this morning and looked out the window to find… no snow. Amanda called this morning and said it was snowing over on the side of town where she works, but there was as of yet no snow by our house. That changed maybe ten minutes later when a flurry of nice, fat snowflakes started to come down. Best of all, it was sticking to the ground! Bruce had been in the snow when he was a puppy, but Harvey had never seen it. He didn’t care too much for it at first, but after a bit he started to sniff around in it. …